J Barts, PhD (he/him/his)

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

About Welcome to FreeGeek of Chicago! We are very glad to see you! Years ago, a wonderful store opened in Portland, Oregon, called FreeGeek, as a place that took in used electronics to be recycled and re…

New wonderful thing I just discovered (and it seems there's one in Portland and possibly other places, too)

A great place to donate tech and access low-cost refurbished tech:

Donate to Stand with Ofelia: Support Her Family Now, organized by Valerie Wadycki I have had the honor and pleasure of working with a very special 16 year-old… Valerie Wadycki needs your support for Stand with Ofelia: Support Her Family Now

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Postdoctoral Fellowship Position: Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies 

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Comedy Happy Place (Actual Title TBD) - Ends on Sat, Feb 21, 2026 *** “Humor is just another defense against the universe.” - Mel Brooks For our upcoming March/April issue, in full recognition of the fact that the universe is a LOT right now, we're going full-on defense mechanism; we're going escapism; we're going coping; we're going with medicine; we're going funny. We want to hear about what makes you laugh, the movie or actor or director you go to when the world overwhelms you, the one you can count on, your

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

The world is a lot right now, so we’re going a different direction for our next issue & are looking for essays on films you go to when the world overwhelms you, the one you can count on, your comedy happy place.

Deadline: 2/21

Details: brightwalldarkroom.com/submissions

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires.

Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

I want to say a bit more about our initiative to hire scholars to 3yr Research Associate positions.

None of us know what the twinning of humanities research support and employment will look like in another 5(?) years. But we do know that we need it. As a matter of social and cultural health. 1/

A few more days left to submit your abstract!! #fanstudies #transculturalfandoms

CFP for Vietnam-US relations History Conference
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CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️

PhD here. Your product is trash. I don’t use it, won’t use it, forbid my students from using it (with copious evidence-based rationales provided), and use whatever other influence I have to counteract its dehumanizing effects.

Society launches call for new Applied History Fellowships, with the Institute of Historical Research and DC Thomson - RHS In November 2025, the Society joins with partners the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and publisher DC Thomson to launch a new Applied History Fellowship programme to support recent post-doctor...

Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII

Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians

V important! Where I always get my cookies!

I am glad to see more and more people talking about this, even in newspapers here in Sweden the talk about finding alternatives to US tech have started.

You dont really realise how much we rely on it until now, when they went from being an ally to an enemy.

I just hope we have time to change

My department at Princeton is hiring a full-time lecturer in Asian Religions. Deadline: February 18.

Expertise in Buddhism in East and Southeast Asia and ability to teach undergraudate courses on Chinese religions and on Great Books in Buddhism of interest.
apply.interfolio.com/180148

Just a reminder that the JJRS is always open for manuscript submissions. See our website for details on how to submit your manuscript.

nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6

Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism.
Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu

CSGS Hiring Postdoctoral Faculty Researcher - CSGS | Center for the Study of Guns & Society CSGS Seeks Postdoctoral PhD with Expertise in Religion and Firearms CSGS is honored to be awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to hire a postdoctoral faculty researcher with...

Postdoc at Wesleyan Center for the Study of Guns and Society focused on "religion and firearms as part of a pilot project titled 'Moving Past God and Guns: Strengthening Scholarly and Public Understanding of the Intersection of Guns and Religion'.”

Deadline: March 1. 2026

Voice AI Concerns to Vancouver School Board Vancouver School Board (VSB) are planning to collaborate with Microsoft to introduce Generative AI into classrooms. As parents and guardians of children at VSB schools, we do not consent to our child...

@parismarx.com hi Paris, we are a group of Vancouver parents that have started a petition to push back against local school board plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot into classrooms.

It would help so much if you could share it 🙏

actionnetwork.org/petitions/vo...

Photograph. A large woodgrain-lined cabinet designed to hold and vend videotapes. On the right is the CRT screen interface and cash/coin insert. Instructional and "VIDEO VENDOR" signage overhead.

If you have the space, means and collection: a northern Texas warehouse full of proto-Redbox VHS vending machines from the mid-1980s is being evicted. The machines are free and whatever isn't taken will imminently be scrapped.

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We are hiring @cbuniversity.bsky.social! Please share widely! #jobs accute.ca/2025/11/23/j...

Professor / Associate Professor or Assistant Professor / of Anthropology Professor / Associate Professor or Assistant Professor / of Anthropology

My department is hiring! Open rank faculty position in Helsinki Anthropology

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Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

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